[Music] welcome to piano lesson number 22 today I'm going to be talking about uh trails and morons and uh turns and other forms of uh uh ornamentation so ornaments you know that are they're little extra tasty tidbits in music and I'm going to explain how to play them how uh What notes you're going to use I'll just try to give as much information as I can on okay so let's hey guys okay so trills what are they so a Trill is basically a short little ornamentation you'll see this a lot in broke music some a little bit in classical music but not as much and also again you'll see it in romantic music now uh you'll see different types in different periods of music and I think I'll get into that in a very soon a lesson very soon in the future I'll do a little bit of music history lesson for you guys anyway so I'm going to show you basically what they are now I'm sure you've seen or uh heard these played before but you didn't know the name of them now whenever you see someone doing something like this that's some type of ornamentation that's what the term is it's ornamentation now the way you do it depends depends on depending on how you do it that's what is is going to determine what you're doing prec like what the name of whatever you're doing is going to be called uh if that's confusing basically this is a trail whereas this is a Morton and this is a turn and like this is a Grace not okay that's a very very quick way of doing it but okay so what are the rules well here are the three types of ornaments so there's a trail there's a trail there's a Morant and there's a turn now there are more types than these but these are the most common ones that you'll see these more intense ones that I had to learn about and they I've never actually come across any of them in music so I thought well there's really no point in talking about them okay so here's the trail now these aren't exact representations or anything CU I'm not exactly a publisher but that's what the these all equal these all mean a Trill basically so this is a very short Trill now Trill would be written above the note usually so say there's a note written here and say it just so happens to be an e okay or no let's say this is an F there's an F here so what we would actually do is we would actually play here on the upper note instead of the F first we would do this like that and end on the note that was written by so it's like this so you start in the upper note and you go to the lower note then back up and then down and that there you go that's the short Trail right there so you just play it like this just like that now when you get into something like this that's more of an extended Trail so usually they'll have a maybe say they'll have a dotted half note and it'll go for most of the bar and they'll have this above it so basically what they're telling you to do is count for three beats or however long this thing is going and just keep trilling over and over and over until that thing stops basically so you just [Music] go you know you just end whenever you're supposed to man I need to practice that I kind of suck at it now so how you do that how do you practice it well do a slow motion version of it so like this now the important part here is to separate your hand from your fingers because your fingers have to move fast and your hand can't really move very much because if it does what's going to happen well you're actually going to have um a lot of turbulence with your arm like it'll be flopping around like a fish so what you need to do is practice just holding your hand up and moving your like second finger and third finger up and down like this just up and down you can try doing this try doing this different things getting those getting the flexibility not the flexibility the dexterity up and as you do it more and more and more you'll get better with it and I'm still not that good at it but basically what you want to do let's go back and forth steady Pace I used to be better at it about 2 years ago back when I used to be able to play piano all the time but I have tendonitis right now so if I play too much anything then my hands hurt really really bad and my hands like curl up and yeah so I'm not as good at demonstrating as I used to be sadly I need to get back into playing more but first my health has to get better I need to fix my tendonitis which means I just have to rest my hands so maybe I should just take a vacation and go to the Bahamas and just Li lie on a beach in hot weather and then stay away from computers and everything because typing and everything hurts my and anyway so you don't want to get tendonitis the reason I got tendonitis in the first place actually wasn't my fault really but it sort of was at the same time I got sick with this thing called pericarditis and uh it's a heart problem and it came from a virus just from some random cold or something that I had gotten and it like went into my heart or whatever and inflamed my heart and I went to the hospital almost died and then I got the same thing again and again and again and when I was on when I when they when I had this happened to me like I had to sit up straight like to sleep and I could it was really hard to breathe and every single Beat of My Heart Like hurt so bad and anyway so I almost died from it and then the doctor like the doctors there gave me all this medication and at one point I was on well not one point but very off like casually I'd be on like 3600 milligrams of ibuprofen every single day every single day for like months so uh one of the side effects of that is muscle weakness so what happened was um basically I would play my stuff that I was used to and my hands would be so weak from the medication like it' be I don't know say if an a like an Olympic Athlete or whatever was used to doing his routine and then all of a sudden he was was about as strong as like a six-year-old but he didn't realize what was happening so he injured himself because he didn't know how weak he really was because he's so used to being at that level anyway so the doctors never told me about the problem like the muscle weakness or anything like that they didn't warn me about tendonitis or whatever and uh basically I just practiced hard just like normal and I used to have really amazing technique I played the polles and I PL major like 24 times in a row without a break and I wasn't tired but yeah that's sort of uh I want you guys to learn from that so if you ever get assigned any medication make sure see how it is going to affect your plane talk to your doctor you know see if there's any side effects that could hurt your muscles and another thing is doing these things these exercises doing so fast or so hard all the time when you're just starting out you your arms are still weak they're not used to doing this much stress so what you need to do is basically uh train them up slowly and if you feel any pain stop just stop right away please I don't want you to get the same thing I got okay so make sure don't don't follow the same thing that I did even though I knew that like uh my arms were hurting I didn't realize what was happening because I I had felt you know like Flames or whatever on my arms and I'm like ah I'm building my muscles up and that was always fine before but then I started getting all this pain and I didn't realize what was happening because my muscles were just screwed so yeah be very careful cuz once you get it it's very hard to stop and I've uh very hard to get rid of it like I've had it for 3 years now anyway but back on to this so trills so this right here this TR that's equivalent to a this Trill basically okay so that's all it means they'll probably put it over and out so you'll be trilling for however long that note is supposed to go for that's sort of the difference this one is just you just do this twice whereas if you have a Trill over um a note like a quarter note you'll be trolling for the whole quarter note okay sometimes they actually combine this with a TR and those or that so it's kind of weird like that anyway so those are trills now how to play them is you want to actually feel very light and just go back and forth you don't want a heavy feeling you don't want to put any weight into it so hold your arm up and just do this and then put your hands on the keys and then start slowly like this try to get a very even sound back and forth back and forth like that okay now Morant Morant these ones they start on so okay so say we had a c written with the Morant okay so it's written above the C how this would actually go is we would do this so it's starting on the note that it's written above then it goes to the note below and back now the thing with these TRS and all these things is they apply to whatever key signature you're in so say you are in D Major and then there's a Morant on a d this would actually go like this because in D Major C is sharp so you you do that okay so whatever key signature is unless they tell you not to do it they'll probably put a natural sign or something to let you know that they don't want that but chances are that they won't do that now that's just a little extra there so a Morant it starts on the Note goes lower and then comes back okay so that is a Morant and usually what you want to do is Morant are accented beats like so this would be your down beat [Music] probably and no no I'm trying to remember that I can't remember how it goes but there's a grade three song I think it's menu and G Major by Bach it's a really nice piece and it has some morance in there okay anyway now the next one is turn well a turn now how turns work is you're actually going to do this you're going to have your hand up like this and then you're going to put your thumb like this and then you're going to lay your thumb down and then as it goes these are still going to come down like this okay now they do it that way sometimes or they just do it like this so I'm going like this 4 3 2 and then I tuck my thumb under and hit the one right there like this or like this so in slow motion [Music] that's me by the way I'm just moving my Thro up and [Music] down anyway now it's really getting late okay so that's how turns work so they go 4 3 2 1 so you can practice that so I find having the fingers like this and then just dropping them sort of like you know if you do this on your desk or whatever so it just be like that like that so there's uh some pieces like I [Music] mean so this one's a little spit special cuz we we've got a a d flat here and a a b [Music] natural so that's kind of cool isn't it that's from showan nocturn and E flat major that one of my favorite pieces I just love that piece so much okay so that's a turn now the next thing is Grace note now Grace note sort of looks like this not this but this I'm just showing you what it would be look looking by now what they mean by this is it's like they've got a very small note where they want you to play and then aign through it usually it's an eighth note or something and what they would want you to do is say Your Grace note was written on the C and your main note the big one was on the C below that so it'd be like this this is how you'd play or I say it was on the G it' be like it's almost like hitting the note and going right to the next note right away so it's like [Music] yeah there's a part in the second page of the minute walls um something like that and you have to do like now all these notes up here are Grace notes now I can't remember the rest of it but I know that there's Grace notes there you'll see grace notes in uh quite throughout many grades actually even in the lower grade you'll see them so those are Grace notes and they should pretty much just be played right to the next note sometimes they're also known as apuras or auras and those are other names for them there's also another type of Grace note with now it has another name but I'm not going to call it that just so it doesn't confuse you um it doesn't have a line through it and when it does that it means that it's going to take half this value so you'd actually play this note to this note like two e notes or if this is a half note you'd play that a coordin note and not a coordin note okay so if you see one without a line to it that's what you have to do you have to give each one half of the value so if this is a whole note this would be half that' be a half note and that would be a half note okay hopefully that makes sense but most of them are just lines through okay um yeah yeah so this uh these Grace notes they should usually be played lightly okay like it should be bouncing very Lively you kind of want to ring it out sort of like ringing a bell like it's a really nice sound when you get it all together now also when you do those turns try not to hammer them out too much try to keep them light that is by keeping most of your arm weight off your fingertips but holding it up with your shoulder almost like that it it'll just take a lot of practice and you have to just sort of practice getting to the bottom of the key lightly so however you can get to the bottom of your piano's key lightly do that so it's not like you're just like so you're not doing this kind of thing where you're pushing down but you're holding back your [Music] arm it's like your shoulders holding up your arm and then your fingers are just kind of dancing over it and your hands are just kind of like they're just think of it like this think of um this part like the forarm here is like the spaceship and here's the like abducting tentacles or something so the T Pentacles move but the spaceship doesn't or you can think of this as the shocks or something in a car right they go up and down like they control the motion whereas this this is where the passengers are sitting right here and you want to keep that as uh level and as smooth as possible so your passengers can be happy when they're listening to their iPods mommy my iPod fell on the ground it's okay honey boom Oh my head hit the roof it's okay honey oh my head went right through the window it's okay honey oh he went on the road oh no it's not okay pulls over gets his kid gets their kid anyway yeah okay so those are Trails um morens turns and Grace notes I'm going to try to find a couple examples and sheet music for you quickly see it was menu but it wasn't by boach CH Christian penal okay so I was just betting safe because pretty much everything's written by Bach in the the baroke period like I mean when Bach died they uh they actually just declared the broke period over that's how how important he was to it I still consider him probably the most brilliant musical composer ever to live so many composers have tried to live up to him anyway okay so right there do you see that what is that that is a Morant now I didn't write it exactly like that did I I told you I wasn't a publisher so don't blame me okay so that's a uh that's a Morant there now how they want you to play it would be like this now here this is one of those things that I was talking about half value but in this case they have uh a dotted half note here so it's going to take the first note is going to take 1/3 and the other is going to take the 2/3 so it actually gets played like this so whenever you see one of these and it's not taking half that's value here because of the it's a lopsided you couldn't split this in half properly so basically this thing gets 1/3 and this gets 2/3 so 1/3 of a dotted half note is 1 beat so that's why you get that okay now here's a Trill that's a Trill so they want you to play it like this see how you start on the uppon note it's a c b CB and look this is a b so you're going CB CB like that okay so I found all those now I need to find a a turn and a Grace note so hold on so see that that would be a Grace not right there see how there's a line going right through it and there's there's another Grace notot and this right here means they want you to accent that note okay so they want you to bring that note out and they want you to join it to that now here is a Trill see how I said you could put a TR above the note so You' Trill this note and then go down there and then do a Grace note there all right so I have found a trail right here oh not a tra a turn now see how there's a flat sign and a natural sign above and below it that would be indicating that this note on the top part of the trail the top note so you're going to play the the C in the middle so the top note would be a d flat and the bottom note would be a B natural so B natural d flat and that would be the C right there so that's how it turns out to be in [Music] that that's the one I was showing you actually because I couldn't find a troll on or turn in any other thing right here these would be Grace notes as well okay so now the way it's actually written though um since there's no lines with them you'd actually play all four of these in a evenly basically right before this actually comes in so you go and as you hit this then You' come in there okay so that is Trails turns and morons woohoo so isn't that a lot to think about huh this piece is written in a cool time signature 12 eight time isn't that interesting see there's 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 128 notes in that one bar anyway see you later guys last one there uh the trails when you're playing them the biggest thing that I'd say is try to keep in mind about feeling your arms feeling free try to feel them feeling light not heavy okay listen to the sound you're getting from the trail or whatever your ornamentation was all right okay take care byebye